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Lately, I've found that there are few activities as enchanting as watching candy being pulled. Includes Korean yeot, American taffy, Turkish macun, Japanese amezaiku, and Nepalese chaku.
posted by Lexica at 7:31 PM PST - 26 comments

Protesters showed up to physically block and voice their objections to “Open Casket” (2016), a painting of Emmett Till by Dana Schutz. [more inside]
posted by bq at 4:28 PM PST - 209 comments

Horse Walk Tests
posted by cortex at 4:00 PM PST - 27 comments

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: "A Delayed Tribute to a French Trailblazer" [NYT]; exhibition trailer; 8 minutes at the exhibition; web gallery of exhibition objects; audio tour / slideshow; and the Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun. [more inside]
posted by Wobbuffet at 4:00 PM PST - 4 comments

The 3 hrs of LeMelons! Get a dirt track cut into a field. Take $300 beaters and race them for 3 hours, or until they all fail. That’s the Three Hours of LeMelons, Canada’s take on the epic beater race...
the 24 hrs of LeMons-- previously on the Blue [more inside]
posted by shockingbluamp at 3:00 PM PST - 16 comments

The Miniature Paper Pavilion Club met biweekly throughout 2012 - 2015 in Vancouver, Canada, to build tiny commemorative public spaces. They created approximately sixty imaginary landscapes with structures using paper exclusively.
posted by moonmilk at 2:54 PM PST - 9 comments

Have you ever wondered what would happen if the President made his dog a cabinet secretary? Or if a famous scientist tried to summon a god? What about if Virginia Woolf wore blackface and pranked the Royal Navy? There’s no need to wonder. It all happened.

Something True is the most recent podcast from the Idle Thumbs podcast network, written by Duncan Fyfe and narrated by Alex Ashby.
posted by juv3nal at 2:18 PM PST - 7 comments

CNN has a slideshow (doesn't reload entire page for each image) of 11 signs from the March For Science. WaPo has their own single page picture set. Time has a decidedly anti-Trump editorial selection. Boston gets really nerdy, which is sort of expected.
posted by hippybear at 1:52 PM PST - 106 comments

The Next Four Avatar Movies Now Have Release Dates Again [io9] “Follow-ups to the highest-grossing movie of all time were originally slated to start coming out next year. But recent statements by director James Cameron disclosed that there’d be a delay for the coming wave of Avatar sequels. Now we know the exact dates that Cameron and his team are aiming for, starting with December 18, 2020.”

“Great to be working with the best team in the business! Avatar takes flight as we begin concurrent production on four sequels. The journey continues December 18, 2020, December 17, 2021, December 20, 2024 and December 19, 2025!” [via: Facebook]

posted by Fizz at 11:57 AM PST - 98 comments

♫ Llama llama
red pajama
feels alone
without his mama ♪
J. Cruz, the host of The Cruz Show has been asking rappers to freestyle the words to the popular children's book Llama Llama Red Pajama (previously) "for my kids." Ludacris' version this week may be the best one yet.
posted by jessamyn at 11:15 AM PST - 11 comments

Jordan Nobles won the 2017 Juno Award for Classical Composition for a work written for, and recorded in, a massive and empty underground water tank at the new Seymour Capilano filtration project in North Vancouver, BC. "Normally you hit a bass drum and get a boom sound. But down there you'd get the boom sound for 30 seconds. That's really fun," Nobles said. [more inside]
posted by Banknote of the year at 9:11 AM PST - 14 comments

Start the weekend off right with this collection of charming animal memes.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 7:49 AM PST - 22 comments

Computer models date ancient catastrophe Recent analysis of carvings from the Vulture Stone may indicate ancient astronomers in modern Turkey recording a strike by comet fragments. The strikes likely induced a mini-ice age. The symbol of a headless man may symbolize great loss of life. More information on the Gobekli Tepe archaeological site.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 7:47 AM PST - 23 comments

Herbstlaubtrittvergnügen (Autumn Foliage Strike Fun): The joy of kicking a pile of autumn leaves! I stumbled upon this random forum post and found a comment about a few nice German words to study.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 7:46 AM PST - 8 comments

It's the magic of life, mushed into a pad | In which the ladies of SkitBox deliver a bloody good statement about one of the fundamental foundations of human existence. [more inside]
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 7:04 AM PST - 4 comments